Wright expresses “Policy makers have chosen to allow sex offender laws to be driven by the demonization of offenders, the devastating grief experienced by a subset of victims, exaggerated claims by law enforcement and prosecutors, and media depictions of the most extreme and heinous sexual assaults.” Due to the lack of education, the inaccurate beliefs, and the often highly mediatized stories lead to many sex offender laws to be misguided. If one is deemed a sexual offender they are put in a very wide category and will forever be labeled a sex offender. Say a person who was in a relationship and had sex with someone “consensually” that was a minor, that person can be charged with statutory rape then there is a person who has raped and murdered